Mentioned in Brightly’s “The Most Exciting Picture Books Coming Fall 2024.”
God created every human in the world and uses melanin to design the perfect shade of brown skin He has chosen for each of us.
Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown, inspired by one of my grandchildren, is a God-honoring, biblical, and joyously affirming rhyming picture book. In this playful adventure, a young boy with an invisible illness (like me) with his service dog (inspired by my service dog Callie) join his multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-generational family and friends to find and celebrate all shades of brown—from the darkest ebony to the lightest ivory.
Everywhere that I go
I’m searching to see
something wonderfully, marvelously
brown—just like me!
From new school desks to freckles and moles, from fresh pastries to cedar canoes, brown is everywhere around us. It’s a color that describes the giant California redwoods and the Grand Canyon walls, busy beavers building dams and great horned owls hoo-hooing.
Illustrated by Pura Belpré Honor Award artist Sara Palacios, Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown takes kids on a tour of the U.S. to seek and find all the brilliant and beautiful hues of brown that God used in creation, highlighting the spectacular shades He chose to use for the skin of His ethnically diverse image-bearers.
Through the rhythmic text and repeating refrain, all children will be encouraged to love the God-given hue of their brown skin as they observe how it’s reflected in their communities and the world around them.
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